Thursday, January 5
Fayetteville, Ark.
7:00 PM
Mississippi State
at
Arkansas
No. 4 Bulldogs Take Unblemished Record To Arkansas Thursday
January 04, 2017 | Women's Basketball
STARKVILLE, Miss. – Mississippi State takes its perfect record and No. 4 national ranking on the road Thursday as it travels to Arkansas for a Southeastern Conference women's basketball contest.
Tip from Bud Walton Arena is set for 7 p.m. The contest will not be televised, but it will be streamed online on SEC Network +.
The contest can be heard in the Golden Triangle area on WKBB-FM 100.9, while WCNA-FM 95.9 will carry the game in the Tupelo, Corinth and Oxford areas.
Fans can also listen online on hailstate.com/plus and the TuneIn app.
Mississippi State seeks to improve on a 15-0 start to the season in a place it has become very familiar with — the road. Of the Bulldogs' nation's-best wins total, 11 of those victories have come away from home, including six true road victories.
State heads to Fayetteville 1-0 in SEC play after opening the league slate with a 74-48 win against LSU on Sunday. Arkansas fell to 11-3 on the year, 0-1 in the SEC after suffering a 73-64 setback at Ole Miss.
SERIES VS. ARKANSAS
ABOUT THE RAZORBACKS
Tip from Bud Walton Arena is set for 7 p.m. The contest will not be televised, but it will be streamed online on SEC Network +.
The contest can be heard in the Golden Triangle area on WKBB-FM 100.9, while WCNA-FM 95.9 will carry the game in the Tupelo, Corinth and Oxford areas.
Fans can also listen online on hailstate.com/plus and the TuneIn app.
Mississippi State seeks to improve on a 15-0 start to the season in a place it has become very familiar with — the road. Of the Bulldogs' nation's-best wins total, 11 of those victories have come away from home, including six true road victories.
State heads to Fayetteville 1-0 in SEC play after opening the league slate with a 74-48 win against LSU on Sunday. Arkansas fell to 11-3 on the year, 0-1 in the SEC after suffering a 73-64 setback at Ole Miss.
SERIES VS. ARKANSAS
- Thursday will be the 36th meeting between the Bulldogs and Arkansas. State will be trying to even the series that the Razorbacks lead 18-17.
- Mississippi State has won the last five meetings in the series, including a pair of decisions last season. State won 80-55 in Starkville behind 19 points from Ketara Chapel, 16 from Dominique Dillingham, 13 from Victoria Vivians and 12 from Chinwe Okorie.
- State competed the season sweep with a 65-55 win in Fayetteville. Vivians tallied 17 in the win, while Dillingham and Morgan William tallied 11 each and Breanna Richardson had 10.
- The Bulldogs trail the series 10-5 in Fayetteville, but is looking to win for the third-straight time in Bud Walton Arena.
ABOUT THE RAZORBACKS
- Arkansas returns home 11-3 on the year and 0-1 in SEC play after falling 73-64 at Ole Miss on Sunday.
- The Razorbacks put four players in double figures on Sunday, with Keiryn Swenson leading the way with 19 points. Jessica Jackson, who leads Arkansas with 17.6 ppg and 7.0 rpg, tallied 11 points against the Rebels.
- Malica Monk averages 10.2 ppg for the Razorbacks, who shoot 44.1% from the field, including 36.4% from the arc.
- Mississippi State improved to 15-0 with Sunday's win against LSU in the SEC opener. The Bulldogs are the SEC's only undefeated team and one of just three in the nation.
- The Bulldogs won their third-straight conference opener, something only done one other time in program history (1991-93).
- State seeks to start 2-0 in league play for the third-straight year.
- Sunday's win makes MSU 23-10 in league games going back to 2014-15. That is the second-most wins in the league in that span.
- State is 33-32 in SEC play under Vic Schaefer. The Bulldogs have won four-straight and 8 of their last 10 regular-season SEC contests.
- MSU is a program-best No. 4 in both the Associated Press and USA Today polls. It's State's 45th-straight week in both. It's the eighth-longest active streak in the nation in AP.
- State's 57.1 FG% vs. LSU is the program's best against an SEC foe since Feb. 16, 2003. The Bulldogs have eclipsed 45% in 11 games, including back-to-back contests above 50%. MSU shoots 48.3% for the year, tops in the SEC and No. 11 in the nation.
- The Bulldogs' +28.7 scoring margin is fourth nationally, tops in the league. MSU scores 81.4 ppg, second in the conference and 15th in the country.
- State has held four-straight opponents, nine this season, to 50 or fewer points. MSU's 52.7 ppg allowed is 12th-fewest in Division I, second in the SEC.
- MSU has won the turnover battle in 14 games. The Bulldogs are 62-9 since 2014-15 when doing so. State owns a +8.5 turnover margin that is sixth in the country.
- Victoria Vivians had her first double-double of the year with 24 points, 12 rebounds against LSU. It was her third-straight 20-point game. She has averaged 24.7 ppg and shot 52% from the field her last three games.
- Vivians has averaged 17.0 ppg in three-career contests against Arkansas.
- Senior Dominique Dillingham drew her first start since Nov. 27.
- Junior Morgan William matched her SEC personal highs in assists (7) and steals (4) vs. LSU. Jazzmun Holmes matched her most assists in a league contest with six. She is averaging 6.2 assists the last five games.
- Chinwe Okorie also put in her best SEC outing, tallying 17 points against the Lady Tigers.
- State stays on the road Sunday, traveling to Tennessee on Jan. 8 for the first of two meetings this season. That game will air online on SEC Network +.
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